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Word: bucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes for Defense | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...thought he was pretty old. But Geology told him that man had been living on the earth for 200,000 years. That was just a drop in the bucket. The oldest dinosaur egg, in the University Museum, is about 200,000,000 years old. And even this figure cannot compare with the age of the earth, which is probably in the neighborhood of 2,000,000,000 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

When 11,000 Harvard alumni convened in Cambridge at the Tercentenary celebration in 1936 it was the biggest alumni gathering in history, but was only a drop in the bucket in comparison with the University's 77,748 alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Organizations Contact Alumni | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

...Last week the votes were in. Soldiers' votes counted five; civilians' one. All jingo songs were quickly eliminated: the winners had to do with love and food. First prize ($200) went to Bonjour les Demoiselles (Hello, Girls); second ($100) to La Gamelle à Gamelin (Gamelin's Bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

More rousing is La Gamelle à Gamelin. Its simple chorus: From Gamelin's bucket all the troop eats soup. All the troop dunks its bread, in Gamelin's bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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